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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






2. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






3. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






4. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






5. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






6. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






7. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






8. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






9. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






10. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






11. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






12. ACWP






13. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






14. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






15. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






16. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






17. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






18. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






19. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






20. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






21. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






22. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






23. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






24. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






25. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






26. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






27. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






28. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






29. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






30. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






31. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






32. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






33. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






34. Float (total float - free float)






35. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






36. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






37. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






38. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






39. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






40. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






41. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






42. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






43. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






44. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






45. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






46. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






47. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






48. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






49. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






50. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.







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